HydroD Semisubmersible Stability

SESAM - HydroD Stability and Hydrostatic Analysis
Part 0 - General of SemiSubmersible
SESAM User Course in Stability and Hydrostatic Analysis

HydroD Workshop:
Perform the analysis in HydroD
• The text in this workshop describes the necessary steps to do stability and hydrostatic
analysis of a semi-submersible as well as checking the compliance to hydrostatic rule
checks IMO and NMD.
• The semi-submersible has 22 compartments which can be filled independently – in this
workshop you are asked to do various tank fillings to see the effect on stability parameters
like e.g. equilibrium position and the computed GZ-curves. Furthermore, the various tank
fillings are used to define intact and damaged conditions necessary to perform the
hydrostatic rule checks
• The panel model, structure model (used to describe the tanks) and the mass model have
been created in GeniE. The total mass of the structure (mass model) is 21258990.81 Kg.
The file describing the panel model is called Panel_T543.FEM (notice that this file uses a
Panel_T1.FEM file), the structure model and the mass model is named Structure_T4.FEM.
• The max and min x-values are -40.3m and 40.3m
• In addition to the text input, there is also a journal file Semi_Submersible_Stability_in.js
that you can read into HydroD to rapidly reproduce the workshop. Please make sure that the
journal file and the FEM files have been copied to the project directory set up by HydroD.
Alternatively, you may refer to all the files from the example directory.
• This workshop should be viewed on-line or on colour print out to best see the property
colour coding.
Xmin = -40.3m Xmax = 40.3m
The model created in GeniE
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Prepared by Ole Jan Nekstad
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The compartments as defined in

GeniE, and an example of filling a
compartment with liquid
Important notes:
• The semi-submersible has 22 compartments as
shown. The compartments have been made In total 22 compartments are
using GeniE’s automatic features for imported to HydroD
compartment generation – of these 22 has been
filled with liquid content to define which ones
are subjected to hydrostatic analyses. The tank
filling is done in HydroD by the user (or from
using the feature for tank balancing).
• The wetted surface to describe the panel model
has also been defined in GeniE.
• All compartment names have been
automatically created based on modelling in
Genie – you may change them in HydroD
• The structures are fictitious model
• The units are meter and kg.
• All pictures created by GeniE and HydroD are
shown using white background
(View|Options|General|Paper
Background). This may be different from your
background.
Model origin at (0m, 0m, 0m) as

shown to the right

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The compartments Cm_LC2 to

Cm_LC9 are located in the pontoon
corners

Cm_LC17 are located in the deck
zone

Cm_LC21 are located in the
pontoon centre

Cm_LC23 are located in columns

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The workshop is split as follows (start modelling from Part 1 and onwards)
• Part 0 – General introduction to the workshop and start HydroD
Pages 1-5
• Part 1 – Using the stability wizard to make model and do initial analysis
The wizards will guide you through all necessary steps to make a model fit for stability and
hydrostatic computations. This is useful also for experienced users, but similar modelling
and analysis may be done by using pull-down menus, tool-buttons or from the context
sensitive menu in the browser. Notice that all data that are created may be modified from
the browser.
Pages 6-34
• Part 2 – Modify cross sections and re-run

Make new cross sections and re-run to display still water forces and moments
Pages 35-39
• Part 3 – Make several loading conditions and execute simultaneously
In many cases it is necessary to define several floating conditions, e.g. special tank fillings
or damaged conditions. This part shows how easy it is to create several conditions and how
to run them
Pages 39 – 48
• Part 4 – Perform hydrostatic rule checks
Check the structure and loading conditions for compliance with NMD and IMO Modu
Pages 49 – 51
• Part 5 – Perform allowable vertical center of gravity analysis
Perform allowable vertical center of gravity analysis according to NMD and IMO MODU
rule sets
Pages 52 – 56
• Part 6 – Make a clean journal file
Save the input files (journal files) for later use
Page 57

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Start HydroD and make a new workspace

• You start HydroD from
Desktop
Start All Programs|DNV Software\Applications|HydroD
• You make a new workspace (or a project) from File|New Workspace and give it a
name
For this workspace we use units meters and Newton
In this tutorial we have used the default installation directory which is
C:\DNV\Workspaces\HydroD. You may of course use other directories.

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Part 1 – The stability wizard of SemiSubmersible
Activate the wizard

• You activate the wizard from the tool-button
• You need to specify what type of model you will be working with, this workshop
assumes a pure panel model
• You may also change the default settings (i.e. filter out steps in the wizards) by
clicking on “Settings”

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Step 1 in the wizard

• Create a location
• Specify name (“GoM” in this case), water density, kinematic viscosity and water depth

• Create a hydro model
• Specify a name and decide

fixed or floating structure

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• Create a panel model
• The panel model specifies the outer wetted surface. The wetted surface is being used to
calculate the floater buoyancy.
The panel model has been made in GeniE
To import, locate the file Panel_T543.FEM stored under
C:\Program Files\DNVS\HydroD\Examples\Semi. The path name assumes you have
installed the program HydroD using default values when installing
Remember that this file refers to Panel_T1.FEM
There are no symmetry planes in this model and the coordinate system of the
imported model coincides with the wanted coordinate system of the hydro model

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Cont’d
• The panel model is now shown in your display window
Notice, the colours have been changed from default using the Modelling Draw Style
Option. See an example of this later in this tutorial

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• Create load cross sections
• One load cross section will be made using the wizard. Multiple cross-sections will be
generated manually later in this tutorial
The purpose of a load cross section is to define where HydroD shall compute still
water forces and bending moments during hydrostatic analysis

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• Create the structure
model. The tank
definitions are now
imported
• Similar to the panel model, the structure model has been created in GeniE.
To import, locate the file Structure_T4.FEM stored under C:\Program
Files\DNV`S\HydroD\Examples\Semi (remember that this file uses the
Panel_T1.FEM file)
• The panel model

and the structure
model is now being
shown in the
graphical window

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Cont’d
• Hint: You may switch your focus view by using the “Modelling Draw Style” feature
Below is shown how to look at the structure model only and also how to change
colours of the beams to dark blue
Remove the panel model

from view

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Cont’d
• Hint: You may switch your focus view by using the “Modelling Draw Style” feature
The beams are now shown with dark blue colour.

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• Define permeability factors
• Permeability factors are used to define whether a compartment can be filled entirely
or not. Compartments may include internal parts like pumps etc. that are not
modelled.
For a permeability factor 1.0 there are no internal parts of the compartment, i.e. the
entire volume may be filled
For a permeability factor of e.g. 0.7, 70% of the compartments volume may be filled
• Define two permeability factors as follows
• You may edit the factors (or add new ones) from the browser area

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• Define deck tank properties
• Deck tank properties are used to define whether a tank (compartment) is treated as a
deck tank or not in connection with stability rule checking
When deck tank properties are employed,
two GZ-curves will be computed, one with
the deck tanks intact and one with the deck
tanks flooded.
• Define a deck tank property as shown to the right

• Define all the compartments
Permeability of compartments (i.e. how much volume may be filled)
Deck tanks for compartments 10-17

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• Create a loading condition
• The first loading condition has a

given draft and trim/heel as specified
• You should now also see the waterline

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• Create fluid properties
• Fluid properties are used when filling the compartments. The compartments are filled
according to these properties together with a filling fraction.
• Two properties are used in this tutorial: Oil and Seawater:
• You may edit the fluid properties

from the browser

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• Create flooded properties
• Flooded properties are used to specify whether a compartment is flooded or not.

When a tank is flooded, the top level of internal fluid is always in line with the
elevation of the sea surface.
When the compartment is 100% below sea surface the tank is filled

• Create filling fractions
• Filling fractions are used to specify how much a compartment is filled.

The filling degree may vary from 0 – 1
Define 8 filling fractions as follows (they may be modified from the browser):

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• Define the content of compartments
• The compartment content is now defined to consist of “intact fluid”, “damage fluid”,
flooded or not and filling fraction (the filling fraction applies to intact fluid)
• HydroD will automatically fill out the columns Tank Lc no and Compartment name
(this has been defined earlier as part of compartment generation.
• Fill in rest of information as follows:

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• HINT
You may document by using colour coding as shown
And apply properties graphically

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• Create a mass model
• The mass model may be specified from a FEM file (i.e. created by GeniE), user
specified options or from a Morison model.
• In this case the mass model has been
created by GeniE and is found on the
file Structure_T4.FEM
You find this file from
C:\Program Files\DNVS\
HydroD\Examples\Semi or from
the project directory if you
copied them there

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• Fill compartments to balance buoyancy and mass
• Select filling fluid and compartments as shown below and press “Compute filling
fractions” (note that all combinations can be toggled off to speed up the process)
Toggle this off

• Filling fractions are now computed by the program ensuring equilibrium
Click OK to accept the changes to the filling fractions
The changes are now permanent (and e.g. reflected in compartment contents)

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• Create flooding openings
• Flooding openings are connected to compartments

It is also necessary to specify weather tight if
performing stability rule check based on MARPOL

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• Make hydrostatic analysis
• Hydrostatic analyses depend on loading conditions and location

In addition you may decide upon start and end of angle interval where you want to
compute

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• Add wind profile
• Wind influences stability as heeling moments and it is thus necessary to include it in

the stability calculations.
The wind contribution is a combination of wind profile, drag coefficients, block
coefficients and active structure area.
• Wind profiles may be user defined or standard IMO MODU Wind Profile
This tutorial assumes usage of standard wind profile, using wind velocity of 75 m/s
The wind profiles may be edited from the browser as indicated below

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• Create drag coefficients
• Specify the drag coefficient curve as a relation between diameters and drag
coefficients.

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• Create drag block coefficients
• Specify the drag block coefficient curve as a relation between cross sectional block
coefficient and drag coefficients.
Drag as function of cross-sectional area divided by circumscribed area

(i.e. is it a round shape or is it something more square

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• Create the heeling moment
• The heeling moment is now defined as a combination of:

This heeling moment is perpendicular to the heeling axis
• You may also specify the wind heeling moments by a user definition
This tutorial assumes empiric flow as defined above

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• Create the hydrostatic analysis run
• And execute it......
Notice that you may run multiple

activities in separate threads
(exploiting multiple processors)
• It is possible to make changes in the workspace while the activity monitor is running.
This should however be done with caution since one or more running activities may
actively be using the settings in the objects.

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• Look at the report
• The report documents the critical information that is needed for engineers to
document safety or not.
Some examples on how to assess the information is given in the following
• GZ-curves

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• Moment of force
Notice that you have an efficient tool for manually computing the area
under/between the curves (for manual checking) by altering the start and stop
angles, the example below shows that righting moment has been found for the area
corresponding to 0 to 35 degrees

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• Openings
As can be seen the opening will be adjacent to the sea surface at heeling angle 52
degrees
There may be several openings in the analysis

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• Detailed information
There is also additional information needed to document safety, this may be found
under the “Information” tab.

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• In addition to investigating results from the standardised report, you may also make
your own report as follows:
This report will give the most extensive amount of information
Notice you may make it for Html viewing or using MS Word or MS Excel (you need
to have Microsoft versions 2003 or later)
Below is shown an example using Html as viewer

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Part 2 – Modifying cross sections of SemiSubmersible
• To compute still water forces and moments you need to specify at which cross sections
the program shall compute these.
Open up the browser as indicated below
Delete the existing cross-section as defined when stepping through the wizard, i.e.
LoadCrossSection1.
Define 20 cross-sections spanning from -50meters and +50 meters in X-direction

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• Cont’d

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• Re-run the crossections analysis to see the forces and moments

Easiest to start analysis again from browser
go to Stability Analysis and RMB the
Stability analysis 1
• Investigate the forces and moments

Open up from the browser as shown
See next page for examples

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• Forces

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• Moment
• You may look at other

forces or moments, e.g.
moments around x-axis
and y-axis at the same
time....

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Part 3 – Additional loading of SemiSubmersible
conditions
• In this Part you will define 3 new loading conditions.
Loading condition 2 is a copy of loading condition 1, but the draft is changed so that
z water level is moved from +15 to +10m. Automatic filling of compartments is used
to achieve equilibrium.
Loading conditions 3 and 4 are copies of loading conditions 1 and 2 respectively – in
addition some of the tanks are flooded. Equilibrium is now achieved by using the
existing tank fillings and the program is thus adjusting draft, trim and heel to ensure
equilibrium
Note: When copying a loading condition, the resulting name will be a variation of
the original name, e.g. LoadingCondition1_1 is a copy of LoadingCondition1
• Make loading condition 2 (=LoadingCondition1_1)
Copy from LoadingCondition1

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conditions
• Modify LoadingCondition1_1
Change the z-water level to +10m
• Use the automatic compartment filling to achieve equillibrium between mass and buoyancy
Select all pontoon compartment contents
Deselect “Analyze all combinations” and press “Compute filling fractions”
Press “OK” to apply the filling fractions to the model
Activate from browser

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conditions
• Make loading conditions 3 and 4
Copy loading condition 1 to loading condition 3 and 2 -> 4 using same copy/paste
techniques as shown on page 40.
• Make compartments flooded in Loading Condition 3 (=LoadingCondition1_2)

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conditions
• Make compartments flooded in Loading Condition 1_2
Specify that compartments 9 and 23 are flooded
• Find new equilibrium for Loading condition 1_2

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conditions
• Find new equilibrium for Loading condition 1_2
• A new draft, trim and heel is now computed

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conditions
• Modify Loading Condition4 (=LoadingCondition1_1_1)
Add flooding to compartments 2 and 22 (same approach as for LoadingCondition3)
Compute a new equilibrium position similar as for LoadingCondition3

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conditions
• Create new hydrostatic analysis
Make new hydrostatic analysis as follows
Remember that loading conditions 1_2 & 1_1_1 represent damaged conditions

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conditions
• Add wind heeling moment to the hydrostatic analysis no. 2, 3 and 4 by copying the
heeling moment curve from HydroStatics1:
• and continue pasting into HydroStatics3 and 4

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conditions
• Run all the new analyses
No need to re-run analysis 1
• You may look at new results from browser

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Part 4 – Hydrostatic rule checks of SemiSubmersible
• Check the structure for compliance with NMD (Norwegian Maritime Directorate) and
IMO Modu for loading conditions 1 – 4 (one should note that connecting the flooding
opening to compartments is not normally done when checking against IMO MODU)
Remember that loading conditions 1 & 2 represent intact conditions
Similarly, loading conditions 3 & 4 simulate damaged conditions since some of the
tanks are flooded
• Make hydrostatic rule checks as follows

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• Check the results

You may check the results individually and on the fly from the browser
Alternatively, you may make a report containing results from all hydrostatic rule
checks
Both options are shown in the following

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• Check the results (cont’d)

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Part 5 – AVCG analysis of SemiSubmersible
• Define the allowable vertical center of gravity analysis

Access dialog from the browser
Specify rule sets for intact and damaged conditions

Specify algorithmic parameters
Select hydrostatic analysis and press OK

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• Define the heeling moment of the allowable VCG analysis

Access dialog from the browser
Use the curve from the hydrostatic analysis

Press OK

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• Execute allowable vertical center of gravity analysis

Access the activity monitor from the browser
Press Start and run the analysis

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• Look at allowable vertical center of gravity graphs

Access the graphs from the browser
There is one graph for each criteria in the intact and damaged rule sets
In addition there is a min curve showing the smallest permissible VCG value
from all the critera

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• Look at allowable vertical center of gravity information

Access the information from the browser
Expand the tree in the left window pane

Select one of the criteria and see the listing of the allowable VCG values
together with the critical axis and the hydrostatic analysis that gave the
allowable VCG value

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Part 6 – Save the work of SemiSubmersible
Make a clean journal file

• Save the work for later use
When save or exit, all data is stored and you can open the workspace later on
• Save the journal file for later use
You can import the journal file created during this session into a new workspace.
This file contains all historical data such as copy, rename and so on.
It is recommended to make a “Clean Journal file”. This journal file will create a
minimum of commands to regenerate the current workspace.
From the File|Save Clean JS please give the name Semi_Submersible_Stability_in.
You can look at this file – it is stored on the project directory specified by you.
The file may be edited and re-used in other projects

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SESAM - HydroD Stability and Hydrostatic Analysis

Part 0 - General of SemiSubmersible

SESAM User Course in Stability and Hydrostatic Analysis

Xmin = -40.3m Xmax = 40.3m

The model created in GeniE

DNV Software – HydroD SemiSubmersible Stability DET NORSKE VERITAS 1

The compartments as defined in

Model origin at (0m, 0m, 0m) as

DNV Software – HydroD SemiSubmersible Stability DET NORSKE VERITAS 2

The compartments Cm_LC2 to

The compartments Cm_LC10 to

The compartments Cm_LC18 to

The compartments Cm_LC22 to

DNV Software – HydroD SemiSubmersible Stability DET NORSKE VERITAS 3

• Part 2 – Modify cross sections and re-run

DNV Software – HydroD SemiSubmersible Stability DET NORSKE VERITAS 4

Start HydroD and make a new workspace

Start All Programs|DNV Software\Applications|HydroD

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Activate the wizard

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Step 1 in the wizard

Step 2 in the wizard

• Specify a name and decide

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Step 3 in the wizard

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Step 3 in the wizard

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Step 4 in the wizard

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Step 5 in the wizard

• The panel model

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Step 5 in the wizard

Remove the panel model

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Step 5 in the wizard

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Step 6 in the wizard

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Step 7 in the wizard

• Define a deck tank property as shown to the right

Step 8 in the wizard

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Step 9 in the wizard

• The first loading condition has a

• You should now also see the waterline

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Step 10 in the wizard

• You may edit the fluid properties

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Step 11 in the wizard

• Flooded properties are used to specify whether a compartment is flooded or not.

Step 12 in the wizard

• Filling fractions are used to specify how much a compartment is filled.

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Step 13 in the wizard

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Step 13 in the wizard

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Step 14 in the wizard

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